Leopold Survage

I've been reading up about Leopold Survage and his "Colored Rhythm" work. Its really interesting  due to the era that Survage was in. Survage was a painter but he was restricted by the canvas in which he painted on. In music, there is no limit to space, it is free, no limits unlike the edge of a canvas, the painter has to stop.

I read this from this article by Samuel Putnam entitled " Leopld Survage and the spatial problem in painting ". (can be found from here : http://rhythmiclight.com/books/TheGlisteningBridge.pdf).

What I am finding out more and more is how similar music and moving visuals are. Through characteristics like colour, form, rhythm, movement, harmony, repetition, dynamics. The list goes on and on. What Survage did was he created a huge array of paintings that he intended to animate, these paintings played one after one  so that you could see a beautiful array of free flowing colours, as free as music, clashing, colliding and bursting of the page. Survage solved his problem of space but unfortunately he could never see the final outcome due to the war. Thanks to youtube, someone has put all of Survages paintings together and we can really understand what Survage wanted to express. 

When I watch the video I kind of feel like I'm watching a bird be freed for the very first time. You can see the freedom that Survage must have felt when he was finally no longer restricted to a canvas.